The Eagle Triumphant: How America Took Over the British Empire
How America’ s empire was not built in Iraq, but founded between the two World Wars
With the current U.S. occupation of Iraq, many commentators have scrutinized America’ s imperial ambitions. Now, in this eye-opening book, Robert Smith Thompson probes the rise of the American imperium in the years spanning the First and Second World Wars. Refuting the conventional view of America as a naive isolationist power, Thompson demonstrates how missteps by British leaders, growing U.S. economic might, and deliberate policies under Franklin Roosevelt helped the United States dismantle the British Empire and inherit its spheres of influence– in the Middle East and elsewhere– by the end of World War II.
Robert Smith Thompson (Columbia, SC) is Professor of International Relations at the University of South Carolina. His books include Empires on the Pacific, A Time for War, and The Missiles of October.
The Chemical Industry and Globalization
Globalization has been a relatively recent phenomenon but it is having an immense impact on the chemical industry. The emergence of China as a major manufacturing and consumer economy has been particularly important in this respect.
This book sets straight many common misperceptions about employment in manufacturing and R&D, analyzes what future business changes to expect within the industry, and the role of the financial community in the industrys current wave of consolidations and divestitures. The author, who has worked as
a senior executive in Fortune 500 companies as well as a CEO in small to medium size firms, comments from first-hand experience what has gone wrong in many firms today who are struggling with changes in the marketplace. He suggests courses of action for company management to take in order to thrive
as well as survive in this new environment.
The pharmaceutical industry has become such a large component of the chemical industry that it is analyzed in a separate...
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Moose Droppings & Other Crimes of Nature: Funny Stories from Alaska by Tom Brennan, ISBN 0945397844
In these one-liners, practical jokes, and funny stories, Tom Brennan shares hilarious and engaging tales of people, animals, and politicians of the Far North.
Moose Droppings & Other Crimes of Nature: Funny Stories from Alaska by Tom Brennan, ISBN 0945397844
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